Saturday, December 12, 2009

In a CNN-first, CNN.com will stream a global debate on climate change live at 8amET on Tuesday, Dec. 15 on www.cnn.com/live, from the UN Conference on Climate Change in Copenhagen. The ‘CNN/YouTube Debate on Climate Change’ will later broadcast on CNN International on Dec. 16 at 4pmET. More than 2,500 questions (probably more now!) have been submitted to YouTube by people around the world, and the debate offers viewers the opportunity to have their questions answered by Kofi Annan, former UN Secretary-General and President of the Global Humanitarian Forum heading the Tck, Tck, Tck: Time for Climate Justice Campaign"; Yves de Boer, executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change; Thomas Friedman, New York Times columnist and Pulitzer-prize winning author; Daryl Hannah, actress and environmentalist; and Bjorn Lomborg, Danish academic and author of The Skeptical Environmentalist.

CNN International anchor Becky Anderson will host the debate. Video on demand from the debate is available on CNN.com and the CNN App for the iPhone and iPod Touch, with the entire show airing on CNN International in the days following the debate.

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This is one of the things that CNN does get right.CNN needs to use real time headlines instead ofthe crawl which is really outdated. Ironically Inoticed that AOL which is now a stand alone isactually doing this; I am not sure how muchCNN can get from AOL but I really like the sphereand now.

It seems as though tv news should be gettingbetter and not worse. Just this week there isan I-phone app that permits you to turn yourphone in to what is basically a live shot cameraand broadcast to your own computer.It is clearand probably taking aim at skype.